Monday, July 15, 2013

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WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Rep. Henry A. Waxman and twenty-one members of the Safe Climate Caucus wrote to Speaker Boehner asking him to schedule a debate on the House floor on the science of climate change and the nation's response to this growing threat.

Animator John Roney animated this segment from "Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theatre," in which he imagines that God would be totally disgusted by how humans have treated the environment. Some NSFW language, which is as funny coming from a deity as it is from Louis C.K.

“CO2, once emitted by burning fossil fuels, stays an awful long time in the atmosphere,” says Anders Levermann, lead author of the study and research domain co-chair at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. “Consequently, the warming it causes also persists.”